'(I) Suppose what I'm saying is if my white child walked up to your Caribbean/Black etc child and said this, what would you feel - or nothing? - as I wouldn't want to walk away with a black eye?'
One user leaving a comment on MailOnline said: 'Frankly this programme is insulting because it uses a lazy stereotype.
'Most educated black people in this country who were born here speak the same as their white peers - some of us have cockney accents, others have RP accents. I am black and have an RP accent as I was the product of private schooling, university etc.
'Children need to lean to speak English properly and I do not understand why having this character would assist that process.
'If the programme makers want to introduce more diversity why not have a black character who speaks like a normal British born black person instead of a character that has a Jamaican accent.
'Surely this makes sense given that we are not living in Jamaica.'
A BBC spokeswoman said nine out of ten complaints had been about the language spoken by the characters.
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