I haven't seen that Rev Wright ever made that accusation about "the white population". He did make a similar accusation about the US Government: "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied." That is not the same thing. Accusing "the US Government" is not the same as accusing "the white population". It may be a mistaken accusation, but it is not in any way racist.
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"We are criminals in that war...We've committed more war crimes than any nation in the world...But God has a way of putting nations in their place." And how would God deal with an unrepentant America "An dif you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power."

Rev Wright? No, Martin Luther King a few months before he died, preaching in his church in Montgomery, Alabama.

I take the quote from an excellent piece by Guardian writer Gary Young in today's paper (March 31st) America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy every day:

"It is unlikely King would have fared any better on YouTube or the blogosphere than Wright did. King, like Wright, was excoriated for opposing the "senseless and unjust war" in Vietnam. "The reaction was like a torrent of hate and venom," recalled one of his aides, Andrew Young. "As a Nobel prizewinner we expected people not to agree with it, but to take it seriously. We didn't get that. We got an emotional outburst attacking his right to have an opinion."