Sure racism has always been with us and always will be. When has it ever been elevated/celebrated/glorified/promulgated as it is today?

Try from Plymouth Rock, throughout the expansionism of the 18th and 19th centuries, and most of the first few decades of the 20th century. That was when the "celebration" excluded non-whites as even being human beings. It's when lynching black people without theat or fear of repercussions was as commonplace as a barn-raising. It's when the genocide of indigenous people worldwide was "celebrated" in the name of colonization to quell the ignorant masses and teach them white man's Christianity. It was especially "elevated and celebrated" during the nearly sixty years of the Jim Crow laws of the American south after the US Civil War.  It was codified in its celebratory elevation with the passage of Chinese Exclusion Acts and Asian Eclusion Acts. It was elevated and celebrated as a defensive measure with the incarceration of entire families of Japanese-Americans and American-born descendants of Japanese immigrants in concentration camps that were euphemistically disguised as internment camps. 

It's cute (sarcastic cute, not precocious cute) that you can pretend that you're experiencing some great crisis that has absolutely no parallel nor precedence, just to further a daily diatribe against a president that you don't like.