The NAACP is about to vote on a resolution condemning the racist elements of the Tea Party movement, and Michelle Obama gave the keynote speech at the annual convention.

The nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on the resolution Tuesday during its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo.

In her speech, the first lady focused on the issue of childhood obesity and her “Let’s Move” initiative, but outside of her remarks, anti-Tea Party activism has been a key focus of the gathering, which conservative leaders say is driven solely by a political agenda.

Tea Party members have used “racial epithets,” have verbally abused black members of Congress and threatened them, and protestors have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior” and “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically,” according to the proposed resolution.

It’s hard to deny this (but you know they will), when Tea Party organizers and leading speakers are often the worst offenders, and when LGF has published dozens and dozens of racist signs and comments from Tea Party demonstrations. No, not all Tea Partiers are racists. But unfortunately, there’s a sizeable undercurrent that sometimes comes right out into the open.