I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

I have experienced threats. Not just to me, but to my family.