The time has come for this to go ...

This grand advertisement for a white man's empire is being removed from the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Since 1940, the statue of Theodore Roosevelt riding out to conquer Cuba, flanked by representations of a Native American man and an African man on foot, has loomed over the museum steps. 

The removal caps a decades-long saga of protests by critics who argued that the equestrian statue symbolized the painful legacy of museums upholding images of colonialism and racism in their exhibitions. Activists have targeted the monument since the 1970s; in recent years, they have tried shrouding the sculpture with a parachute and defacing it with red paint. 

It's time is over. Good riddance ...