This will ramble a bit, but here goes:
I've been going to games since 1975 in person, and the most popular players from the fan perspectives have been African American. Wayne Julien, Dion Rainey, Andrew Toney, Alonza Allen, Graylin Warner, Dion Brown, Alfred "Pop" Turner, Dan Gay, Aaron Mitchell, Marcus Stokes, Kevin Brooks, Lonnie Thomas, etc, etc, etc. were the favorite players of their times when I've been attending games.
The "white" players who were cheered locally were by and large local products who people in the area were familiar with from seeing them play in high school, but were never the stars of the teams.
True fans (which I believe most of the Cajun fans are) want to see our basketball team play hard throughout the game, play tough defense, and most importantly, play like a team. I mean no "me first" mentality, make the extra pass to the open man, worry about your teammates first before yourself. I watched every home game this past year, and early in the season we didn't do this. Our passing was horrible, we continuously made poor decisions with the ball, and we were slow on defense and consistently getting beat on a man on man basis. When we started rotating a number of players about mid-point in conference, the defense picked up, we did a better job of moving the ball inside and out we created more consistant inside scoring and wide open outside shots, and we did a much better job of controlling the ball and taking less forced shots.
I've not criticized individuals on the team (and won't), but I can't call someone else who does a racist because I don't know him or his personal beliefs. This is a "FAN" site, so keep in mind the vast majority of people here truly love the university and all of its sports teams. We go to the games day after day, week after week, and year after year, because that's what "FANS" do.
There's people that you'll disagree with throughout your life, and you try as an adult to ignore them as much as possible, so you might as well learn that now. Most fans of college teams are like the general populace, some good and some bad.
By the way, I spoke to Marquie at a pre-season practice (along with about every Cajun player I could) and he seems a great kid. I'm looking forward to him averaging double/double scoring and assists for the team next year. I'm hoping he doesn't have to average double digit rebounds as well.
Sorry about the ramble.