Gordon Klein, professor of accounting, has been suspended for three weeks Non-black students emailed asking for leniency in marking black peers' work Klein replied that he had no idea who was black given the course was online He asked how he should grade people of multiple ethnicities Klein noted MLK's fight for people to not be evaluated based on skin color UCLA's Anderson School of Business described his email as 'disturbing' A petition to see Klein removed now has almost 20,000 signatures Academics have defended Klein for 'treating students on the basis of equality'