title: some cities want their noncitizen immigrants to vote
text: go back to where you claim home kansas lawmaker tells protester dion lefler wichita eagle october   
  kansas state rep joe seiwert commented on facebook that an africanamerican singer who knelt while performing the star spangled banner at a miami heat game should go back to where she claims as home 
  seiwert rpretty prairie posted that comment and a longer followup on an antiblack meme that was originally posted to a prodonald trump facebook group and then shared by one of seiwerts constituents 
  seiwert confirmed the comments were his and said he was exercising his first amendment right to free speech as he says the woman in the meme did when she wore a black lives matter tshirt and knelt while singing the anthem 
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  the photo in the meme is of denasia lawrence a miami social worker and according to the miami sunsentinel a parttime gamenight employee of the heat professional basketball team the team has issued a statement saying team officials were unaware that lawrence planned to protest when they asked her to sing the anthem at fridays preseason game with the philadelphia ers 
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  to which seiwert responded i am where i claim home and like it they want to claim it and it is their right to go where ever they like so if they dont like it here i believe that their freedom completely allows them to go wherever they believe is more free and non racist if thats what they believe 
  seiwert said he didnt see the profanity in the meme when he commented and didnt do anything wrong 
  i have a personal life besides a legislative life he said maybe it was inappropriate i dont believe so because i said nothing derogatory and i believe that if people are that upset with the national anthem they can do whatever they want to on their own time but when theyre using it on national tv to make a statement thats not right 
  i said if she lawrence doesnt like it here then go where she would like it whats wrong with that he said 
  asked why a person should leave rather than try to change things where they are seiwert responded because maybe theres other people who dont want their place changed 
  he also said he did not think his comments had anything to do with race 
  it dont make any difference if theyre black white or green its the disrespect to our country he said and why does everybody put the color to it 
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  the person who made the meme took a photo of lawrence from the web and added in capital letters kneeling while singing the national anthem    im so sick of these antiamerican blacks    expletive black lives matter 
  seiwerts comment directed at lawrence was go back to where you claim home than sic 
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