Condolences to Rev. Run and Family

September 28, 2006 by Marc Lamont Hill

My deepest condolences go out to Reverend Run, whose daughter, Victoria Anne Simmons, died at bith last Thursday. After Run’s wife Justine became pregnant last season, the two decided to allow MTV cameras to film the birth. But doctors, who delivered the baby by Caesarean, tragically found she had vital organs on the outside of her body, and she died shortly afterwards.

Run recently released a statement saying: “Victoria Anne Simmons, for some unknown reason, chose to come early and unfortunately did not survive. We must accept whatever is there and once you accept unconditionally, then everything is beautiful…Every pain has a purifying effect. So whatever comes your way, just be thankful.

Categories: MLH
|

6 Comments

1. Hal wrote:

I heard that this was not true. What’s going on here?

September 28, 2006 @ 8:56 am

2. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

It’s true.

September 28, 2006 @ 9:01 am

3. Samuel Beatrice wrote:

Very sad for Rev. Run & his family.

ChgoSista – that sounds like a very unusual story. I’ve never heard of that happening before.

Not to trade stories of horrible deaths, but has anyone been following up on that girl who killed her pregnant best friend, cut her baby out of her womb and claimed it was hers? then she killed the woman’s other three children and stuffed them in the washer and dryer?

September 28, 2006 @ 12:11 pm

4. Hal wrote:

yes, Samuel Beatrice. I have heard about that story. I do not believe in the death penalty, SO I think she should be placed in a washer and dryer as well. Let’s just see how she comes out.

That bitch.

September 28, 2006 @ 12:40 pm

5. Hal wrote:

It will be okay Afrikabelle…it is gonna be okay…

September 28, 2006 @ 2:26 pm

6. REVS #1 FAN wrote:

I ABSOUTLY LOVE THIS SHOW. ANY OF YALL THAT TALK BAD ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST PLAIN CRUEL. I CRIED AND CRIED WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT VICTORIA HAD PAST AWAY. BUT WE ALL KNOW SHES IN A BETTER PLACE. JUSTINE I COULDNT WAIT UNTIL SHE WAS BORN THEN I CRIED AND CRIED. I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO MEET YOUR FAMILY. REV. RUN YOU ARE BLESSED WITH AN AWESOME FAMILY. GOD IS LOVE.

June 21, 2007 @ 11:23 am

Now Reading

Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity by Marc Lamont Hill
Buy Now
The Classroom and The Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America by Mumia Abu-Jamal & Marc Lamont Hill
Buy Now
View More