Complex sentence: Chong was born Marcus Wyatt in 1967 in Seattle, Washington; his mother is of Chinese ancestry and his father, Martin Wyatt, who was African American, was a sports reporter in San Francisco for KGO-TV.
Split into simpler sentences: Chong was born Marcus Wyatt in 1967 in Seattle, Washington; his mother is of Asian ancestry. His father is Martin Wyatt, who was a sports reporter in San Francisco for KGO-TV.