Huh?

Not a man to be taken lightly.

So either the President of the United States and his Press Secretary don't know who Frederick Douglass was or maybe this is some twisted attempt to remove him from history, as they recently did with not mentioning the Jewish people who suffered and died in the Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day?

Why am I in a position to even have to wonder about this?  What is wrong with this country?

Frederick Douglass is one of the most important people in the history of the United States.  If you are somehow as ignorant of him as our President apparently is, please educate yourself.  This will be a decent start.  Enjoy.