I was on another site and a brotha said that I shouldn't make matching my black consciousness a deal breaker. He said if a woman is totally into you and you're the one, she will adopt your views. He had a point. I dated sisters who became more conscious after they starting dating me. They weren't as committed but they definitely were more pro black.
I would prefer black American women because its what I know, what I grew up with, grew up dating, but am open to a sista outside America. By black American, I don't mean she's FBA per se. Just grew up in America no matter the lineage. What I found out dating sisters either who live in Africa or elsewhere in the diaspora, even where my peoples are from, they don't get the nuances, jokes, etc. They will take jokes or kidding literally but a person who grew up in America wouldn't.
It's strange to say this but in a lot of instances a white American woman would understand me culturally, socially more than a native African sista. I'm not talking dating, just regular conversation. I have to explain references to one and not the other.
Watching movies, music, etc, you feel alone when the other person doesn't understand. What has also irritated me is if they think everything in America is great and our systemic racism and all that is overstated. I don't even consider someone like that. Deal breaker.
The exception are black Canadians and black British women. They understand the references for the most part (especially black Canadians, pretty much zero difference for the ones who were born and raised there) and the black British women understand it even though its not theirs culturally.
Things are changing though. I've found that many native African people are into black American culture heavy so will say 'Boo', 'Fam', 'Lit' and other words and understand them. The sisters I have had the least cultural connections to are Latina black women. They are Latina. And they have the most shame about their complexion and I can't f*ck with any woman who doesn't see black skin generally and specifically dark skin as beautiful. That's a deal breaker.
That being said, love should conquer all as they say.