I did not say we, as a nation, had accomplished the goal of equal opportunity. I said we should assure it to the greatest extent possible. It's a work in progress! You have to admit, we've made progress. If the opposite were true, as you state, we'd have black people still enslaved today. That would really be outrageous and something for which we would not stand. I'll admit, though, we still have much to do in the way of equality and bias.
Moving forward, as I used it, means we cannot allow the mistakes of the past and whatever guilt they may produce, to impede our progress in attaining the goal of equal opportunity.