California reparations: Great-granddaughter of racism victim in Golden State says no. Here's why

Under the logic of the current reparations proposals, descendants of early Chinese immigrants to California, like myself, should be eligible for reparations as well.

Ying Ma, author of "Chinese Girl in the Ghetto," is president of the American Ideals PAC.

California does have a sordid history of mistreating its large yellow population. For more than a century after Chinese immigrants began arriving for the Gold Rush around the 1850s, they faced open discrimination and unabashed hatred in this state. 

My paternal great-grandfather lived in Northern California as a laborer around the turn of the century.